Whois & Analysis for beckman.com

Beckman Coulter Inc., is an American company that makes biomedical laboratory instruments.

Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O.

Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 10,000 people, with $2.4 billion in annual sales by 2004.

Its current headquarters are in Brea, California.

Research and development (R&D or R+D), also known in Europe as research and technical (or technological) development (RTD), is a general term for activities in connection with corporate or governmental innovation.

Research and development is situated at the front end of the innovation life cycle, which may end with commercialization.

A laboratory (CommE or, AmE; informally, lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

A measuring instrument is a device for measuring a physical quantity.

In the physical sciences, quality assurance, and engineering, measurement is the activity of obtaining and comparing physical quantities of real-world objects and events.

Established standard objects and events are used as units, and the process of measurement gives a number relating the item under study and the referenced unit of measurement.

Measuring instruments, and formal test methods which define the instrument's use, are the means by which these relations of numbers are obtained.

All measuring instruments are subject to varying degrees of instrument error and measurement uncertainty.

A reagent is a substance or compound added to a system to cause a chemical reaction, or added to test if a reaction occurs.

The terms reactant and reagent are often used interchangeably—however, a reactant is more specifically a substance consumed in the course of a chemical reaction.

Solvents, though involved in the reaction, are usually not called reactants.

Similarly, catalysts are not consumed by the reaction, so they are not reactants.

In biochemistry, especially in connection with enzyme-catalyzed reactions, the reactants are commonly called substrates.